Tell me about yr music collection: digital, CD, vinyl, etc.

[Birds in Hell]

Since we moved into our current house, my music collection had been haphazardly placed here and there until I recently decided to condense and organise everything.

I'd previously made mention of this here:

A shelf that holds 756 CDs.

It's 2015 and I'm trying to organise my compact disc collection for some reason.

just one shelf? how long is it?

it juts out about 15 feet from his front porch

if its in alphabetical order I wonder what the last cd is

Sorry to disappoint, it's more like a bookshelf.

Alphabetisation is set to commence this weekend.

It feels kind of silly, I think about getting rid of them all (beyond the hundreds I just sold/gave away), but at the same time I worry about hard drives failing and losing everything etc.

After selling/donating/junking every bit of vinyl I had, as well as a few hundred CDs, I now have a shelf with the remaining 500 or so CDs organised alphabetically.

Guess what? Now it's done it all feels kind of redundant and I can easily imagine a time when I'll get rid of the rest and move to digital only. Unlike books, where I feel as though the tangible object remains clearly preferable to the digital alternative, I really don't have any lingering fondness for hanging onto my music in a physical form. In every respect, a lossless digital file seems like the better option.

How about you, OB?

[BurtReynolds]

a little space on my hard drive dedicated to mp3s.

[zeb]

How many TB are we talking if we're wedded to the ideal of lossless, spenno?

[Birds in Hell]

I'm not at home to check this moment but I'm fairly sure I'm up around 1TB currently.

[surfndestroy]

About 800 cd's stored away in a closet. They've all been ripped losslessly to a drive. About 2TBs of music and 500GB of movies on the NAS server. Another 200 or so cd's that either have dvd's or 5.1 mixes with them on a vertical storage rack, stored alphabetically and 30 plus boxsets stored alphabetically on a bookshelf. 80 vinyls stored in a couple wooden crates in the living room. I'm a sucker for 5.1 mixes and boxsets/vinyls with great art packages. I think both really enhance the listening experience. Easily half the vinyls are duplicates, favorites that I also have on cd, to help me fully get lost in the listening.

[Rangi Guy]

I have possibly a couple hundred CDs - mainly R.E.M. and Pearl Jam, but lately I've been buying all my music on vinyl - possibly 50 odd

[Strat]

I have slowly gotten rid of most of my cd collection over the past 8 years or so. They took such a beating in the car over the years. When I moved to slipping CD's into those CD book cases to carry in my car, i ended up losing much of the cases. Then the growing of digital music kind of weeded out the need for cd's. I have gotten into vinyl the past few years and super enjoy the collecting aspect of it and arranging records and displaying them. I really do enjoy going back to actually listening to albums, which was long lost due to the cds and mixed cd's and digital music. So, as of now im all about digital streaming (rdio.com) and vinyl. I still have an external hard drive and my main hard drive is filled with digital music for backup purposes in case a zombie war breaks out and streaming services go down.

[zeb]

I think I've bought maybe five CDs over the last two years.

[LoathedVermin72]

I can't decide how to feel about buying CDs anymore. I never use them after ripping them to my computer but the thought of paying for files with no physical copy just seems wrong to me.

[Orpheus]

I can't decide how to feel about buying CDs anymore. I never use them after ripping them to my computer but the thought of paying for files with no physical copy just seems wrong to me.

Vinyl is a good solution for albums you really like. You get actual artwork you can use.

[LoathedVermin72]

I can't decide how to feel about buying CDs anymore. I never use them after ripping them to my computer but the thought of paying for files with no physical copy just seems wrong to me.

Vinyl is a good solution for albums you really like. You get actual artwork you can use.

I do love vinyl and buy them when I can, but they're more expensive and I don't have a good storage system for them.

[ridleybradout]

I've got somewhere between 800-1000 CDs boxed up in the garage, which I planned to go through and cull while I'm off work for a few weeks with the new bub (yeah right! ).

Inside I've got two small shelves of CDs - mostly PJ Official Bootlegs and various mixes and compilations I've made over the years. Then I've got about 60 vinyl records that I play semi-regularly (mostly PJ, Radiohead, QOTSA, Lanegan, S-K, Interpol, Crowded House etc) and another 80-odd LPs and 7"s in the garage.

As for digital, I regret that back when storage was limited I ripped most of my CDs to iTunes at 160k mp3. I plan to rectify that when I start culling. Even still, at last count I'm at just over 200GB, with only a handful of recent albums ripped in ALAC.

Put me in the seldom-a-CD-purchased camp these days, nearly all of my physical purchases in the past couple of years have been wax.

[LetMeSleep]

Very similar to Brad.

Back in 2005 I ripped all 2,000 odd discs at 160kbs and burnt DVDs of the lot (2 copies of about 30odd DVDs). A mate also gave me free reign of his collection so I did another 100-200 of his.

Of my 2000, I sold about half to 60%, the rest has sat in boxes since (at my mum's while I was overseas). I've recently started going through them and selling them. Every visit I grab another box. I can only see myself keeping ones that are either very special to me, signed or have interesting packaging.

I sold most of my vinyl then too and the remaining is to be sold when I can be bothered.

I need to review my hard drives as I've neglected it for a few years (kids). I have 2 x 1TB (identical mirrors) plus a 750gb with other stuff. Lots of friends collections on there.

There was a time when every paycheck meant a handful of discs. Now that seems so flippant and careless. I can't begin to describe how much every disc meant to me but now they're just static objects.

[Simple Torture]

I sold almost all of my CDs about two years ago; I was shocked with how much I got for them on eBay (people will pay $3.99 for a Nirvana CD???). I kept some collectible stuff, like Pearl Jam bootlegs, but even most of my favorite bands are gone. The few CDs I have left are in boxes in the basement.

I have about, I dunno, 2TB worth of digital music on an external hard drive (mostly V0 MP3s, not much lossless) that just sits on my desk; I transfer music to my iPod Classic when I want to listen to it. Pretty good system!

I also have about 530 LPs+7''+10''. Anything I listen to regularly or anything that's valuable is in an IKEA Kallax in my home office, and I'm storing old stuff (mostly things I inherited or stuff I grabbed from the $1 bin) in the basement.

[LetMeSleep]

I was shocked with how much I got for them on eBay (people will pay $3.99 for a Nirvana CD???).

Someone has currently bid $5 for a Candlebox CD and $10 for Neko Case. Really?

[Simple Torture]

I was shocked with how much I got for them on eBay (people will pay $3.99 for a Nirvana CD???).

Someone has currently bid $5 for a Candlebox CD and $10 for Neko Case. Really?

Are they international bids? When I was selling my collection, I needed cash fast, so I limited shipping to US addresses only, but I got a number of requests from international buyers who wanted to know if I'd make an exception, and they were almost always willing to pay more than what people had bid. For some reason, this happened a lot from Brazil.

[LetMeSleep]

I was shocked with how much I got for them on eBay (people will pay $3.99 for a Nirvana CD???).

Someone has currently bid $5 for a Candlebox CD and $10 for Neko Case. Really?

Are they international bids? When I was selling my collection, I needed cash fast, so I limited shipping to US addresses only, but I got a number of requests from international buyers who wanted to know if I'd make an exception, and they were almost always willing to pay more than what people had bid. For some reason, this happened a lot from Brazil.

Back in 2005 I sold an Iron Maiden CD single to some guy in Brasil for $126 (aust). It had 2 tracks and it wasn't that rare.

[Kevin Davis]

I still listen pretty much exclusively to CD's, and buy them as regularly as I buy anything frivolous (I haven't counted recently but I probably have about 1200). The idea of selling it all off and going completely digital doesn't appeal to me at all.

[E.H. Ruddock]

My parents just moved and brought me some boxes of some old stuff of mine they found in storage. One of the boxes is all my old 80's metal, punk, and hip-hop cassette tapes. I have no way to play them but I don't want to get rid of them. :/

[E.H. Ruddock]

Back in 2005 I sold an Iron Maiden CD single to some guy in Brasil for $126 (aust). It had 2 tracks and it wasn't that rare.

And so started Human Bass' rampage against the h*mens of Brasil.